Glenn Mills: The Olympic Athlete's Success

His crushed many Olympic Athletes dreams, but even though they might not have gotten to represent the United States at the Olympic games they still stood behind President Carter and supported his decision. From the eyes of Olympic swimmer Glenn Mills, he and the other United States summer Olympic athletes watched their fellow winter Olympic athlete’s success and became more inspired to fulfill their own Olympic Dreams (Caraccioli & Caraccioli, 2001, p. 66). As the athletes watched on, they dreamed that the Soviet Union would pull their troops so they could go over and live their Olympic dream. There was still hope even after the deadline had passed, but in the next month all their hope began fade and the dream of competing in the 1980 summer Olympics vanished (Caraccioli & Caraccioli, 2001, p. 18). Even though Glenn Mills had lost his opportunity to be able to compete in the 1980 summer Olympic, he used that to fuel him for the next summer games in 1984. The United States Olympic Committee was having a meeting to discuss whether they would support the boycott or not. Caraccioli and Caraccioli (2001) reported that the day before the United States Olympic Committee had their meeting, a group of 50 …show more content…
President Carter got a lot of support from not only the American people but also the support from Congress. It only took President Carter a matter of months before he had almost the whole support of the American people not to go to Moscow to the Olympic games. As President Carter (1981) stated he had the support of Congress not to go to the Olympic games, “Congress overwhelmingly voted almost unanimously, which is very rare, that we will not go to the Olympic games” (p. 518). With everyone supporting President Carter on his decision to boycott the Olympics he was starting to believe that he had made the right